On the 9th and 10th of June, 1995 Kopint-Datorg and the Economic Research Institute of Halle (IWH) held a common seminar in Halle on the integration of the Eastern European transition countries to the European Union. This paper contains three of the studies prepared for this seminar in German. The following two publications (No. 36, and No. 37) do contain the other papers in English.